Flashpoints
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An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.
Flashpoints – April 26, 2006
We get an update on the plan for the Great May One Boycott-a national action in support of the new immigrant rights revolution. We’ll also look immigration crack down by the feds to take the steam out of this new movement. In Haiti, torture victims who fled the country after the US funded death squaders; … Continued
Flashpoints – April 25, 2006
Legendary actress Rita Moreno talks about her work on the screen and her struggle as a Latino actress to get respect and her strong support for the immigrant revolution; plus, we celebrate the 52nd birthday of death row journalist and political prisoner Mumia abu-Jamal; we continue our reporting on the Kurdish and Palestinian refugees imprionsed … Continued
Flashpoints – April 20, 2006
We continue our in-depth coverage of the escalating US war rhetoric against Iran, Phyllis Bennis takes a further look at the ramifications of a potential attack and what the day after that war might really look like; news headlines from occupied Palestine with Kristen Ess; documenting systematic Israeli settler violence in occupied Hebron; and the … Continued
Flashpoints – April 19, 2006
What would Iran and the region look like in the aftermath of US nuclear war? We’ll speak with internationally-renowned theoretical physicist and environmentalist Dr. Michio Kaku; also, our special correspondent Dahr Jamail reports on the unraveling civil war in Iraq and the misreporting of the story by the US corporate media; smoking gun documents that … Continued
Flashpoints – April 18, 2006
We hear from one voice among thousands of Iraqis now fleeing the violence in their US-occupied homeland; Israel expands its bloody occupation against Palestine, we’ll have an on-the-ground report; plus, an in-depth look at the forgotten refugees of the Iraq war, imprisoned inside refugee camps on the border between Iraq and Jordan; an interview with … Continued
Flashpoints – April 17, 2006
Pratap Chatterjee reports from Northern Iraq on the ongoing corporate ripoffs and the total breakdown of the reconstruction of Iraq; also, the cycle of violence continues with a Palestinian suicide bombing in Tel Aviv on the heels of two weeks of the most intense Israeli occupation violence seen yet; Los Angeles students speak out for … Continued